Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

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On this occasion a ‘gale’ was blowing….

October 2026

December 2006

Please Note :- Draft Minutes and need to be agreed and ratified @ next full council.

Queen St Church – Saturday 3rd October
Doors open 18.30 for 19.00 start.

 Mothers Pride”

It’s a heart-warming comedy about family life, community and coming together with plenty of laughs, ideal film for all ages.

This is the first event of this film season We hope you can join us.

No admission charges are made for these regular winter events with refreshments served during an interval.

Donations are much appreciated to offset operating expenses.
Card transactions now available if preferred.

If you value “cinema” events in your Town and would like them to continue, please try to come along.

Your smiling faces when attending encourage us to continue!
We really value your support!

A new quarter means new priorities for our neighbourhood teams!

Come along to one of our community meetings to hear about what the teams will be focusing on and raise any concerns you may have.
If this is something you are interested in, then you can find the dates of our upcoming meetings below:

• Peel House in Queen Street, Whittlesey, from 2pm until 3pm, on Thursday, 8 October
• Chatteris Library, from 1pm until 2pm, on Friday, 16 October
• Chatteris Library, from 11am until 12pm, on Friday, 30 October
• March Library, from 3pm until 4pm, on Friday, 30 October

You can find out more about your local neighbourhood team over on our website.

Cllr Dee Laws                                 Cllr Diana Dickinson

Hi, – I run https://busmaps.uk/, a small volunteer project that makes printable bus maps, both:

• of the bus routes within a town, drawn on its streets with the places people go, and
• of where you can get to from the town.

We have made bus maps for St Ives, March, Huntingdon, Ramsey and Wisbech, and I have now drawn a draft pair for Whittlesey. Nobody asked me to, and I am writing to the Town Council to ask if you might be interested in using them.

I should say straight away that I use an AI system, Claude, to do most of the detailed work — reading the timetables, checking them against each other and drawing the maps. It is the only way one person can do this with any accuracy for more than a handful of towns, and I would rather you knew than guessed. One positive aspect of this is that our maps can be updated easily each month if they need it.

The draft of your maps is not published anywhere, and it will not be unless the council wants it to be. I attach the two maps. The most useful thing you could do with them is tell me what is wrong or what you might like to change — a scribble on a print-out, or an email, are fine. If you would rather look at them online than on paper, I can arrange that too — just say so, and I will send a private link that only the council can use.

During our pilot phase there is no cost to the council. Eventually there will be a charge to cover our costs but, with the way we are doing it, I am hopeful that it will give real value for money.

One particular question I have is about the villages. The map of buses within Whittlesey follows the buses out to Eastrea, Coates, Turves and Pondersbridge, so it covers the villages as well as the town. Is that useful, or would the council rather it kept to the town itself, with more room for its streets?

I must emphasise that https://busmaps.uk/ is currently a one-person part-time project, and I cannot offer any guarantees about service levels, response times, or even longevity. I do hope that it will prove useful, and that we can put it on a firmer basis going forward.

If this is not something the council might be interested in, just let me know and I will not write again.
Best wishes,
Peter (Cooper).

Don’t get excited – Most of this water is destined for Essex and other places outside of Fenland – Leisure and some jobs in 10 years time !!!!!